because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the shackles had been shattered. And no one was strong enough to subdue him. And during every night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was crying out and cutting himself with stones. And when he[a] saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and knelt down before him.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 5:6 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal